linux/fs/proc
Qiaowei Ren 4aae7e436f x86, mpx: Introduce VM_MPX to indicate that a VMA is MPX specific
MPX-enabled applications using large swaths of memory can
potentially have large numbers of bounds tables in process
address space to save bounds information. These tables can take
up huge swaths of memory (as much as 80% of the memory on the
system) even if we clean them up aggressively. In the worst-case
scenario, the tables can be 4x the size of the data structure
being tracked. IOW, a 1-page structure can require 4 bounds-table
pages.

Being this huge, our expectation is that folks using MPX are
going to be keen on figuring out how much memory is being
dedicated to it. So we need a way to track memory use for MPX.

If we want to specifically track MPX VMAs we need to be able to
distinguish them from normal VMAs, and keep them from getting
merged with normal VMAs. A new VM_ flag set only on MPX VMAs does
both of those things. With this flag, MPX bounds-table VMAs can
be distinguished from other VMAs, and userspace can also walk
/proc/$pid/smaps to get memory usage for MPX.

In addition to this flag, we also introduce a special ->vm_ops
specific to MPX VMAs (see the patch "add MPX specific mmap
interface"), but currently different ->vm_ops do not by
themselves prevent VMA merging, so we still need this flag.

We understand that VM_ flags are scarce and are open to other
options.

Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151825.565625B3@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-11-18 00:58:53 +01:00
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array.c Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2014-08-06 08:06:39 -07:00
base.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-10-13 11:28:42 +02:00
cmdline.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
consoles.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
cpuinfo.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
devices.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
fd.c vfs: Remove d_drop calls from d_revalidate implementations 2014-10-09 02:38:58 -04:00
fd.h proc: Move proc_fd() to fs/proc/fd.h 2013-05-01 17:29:39 -04:00
generic.c proc: make proc_subdir_lock static 2014-08-08 15:57:22 -07:00
inode.c proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread 2014-08-04 10:07:11 -07:00
internal.h proc/maps: replace proc_maps_private->pid with "struct inode *inode" 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
interrupts.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
Kconfig kcore: add Kconfig help text 2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
kcore.c fs/proc/kcore.c: don't add modules range to kcore if it's equal to vmcore range 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
kmsg.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
loadavg.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
Makefile proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread 2014-08-04 10:07:11 -07:00
meminfo.c mm: export NR_SHMEM via sysinfo(2) / si_meminfo() interfaces 2014-08-06 18:01:19 -07:00
namespaces.c new helper: readlink_copy() 2014-04-01 23:19:15 -04:00
nommu.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
page.c mm/balloon_compaction: add vmstat counters and kpageflags bit 2014-10-09 22:26:01 -04:00
proc_net.c Revert "proc: Point /proc/{mounts,net} at /proc/thread-self/{mounts,net} instead of /proc/self/{mounts,net}" 2014-08-10 21:24:59 -07:00
proc_sysctl.c sysctl: remove typedef ctl_table 2014-08-08 15:57:24 -07:00
proc_tty.c proc: remove proc_tty_ldisc variable 2014-08-08 15:57:22 -07:00
root.c Revert "proc: Point /proc/{mounts,net} at /proc/thread-self/{mounts,net} instead of /proc/self/{mounts,net}" 2014-08-10 21:24:59 -07:00
self.c new helper: readlink_copy() 2014-04-01 23:19:15 -04:00
softirqs.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
stat.c /proc/stat: convert to single_open_size() 2014-07-03 09:21:54 -07:00
task_mmu.c x86, mpx: Introduce VM_MPX to indicate that a VMA is MPX specific 2014-11-18 00:58:53 +01:00
task_nommu.c proc/maps: make vm_is_stack() logic namespace-friendly 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
thread_self.c proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread 2014-08-04 10:07:11 -07:00
uptime.c cputime: Default implementation of nsecs -> cputime conversion 2014-03-13 15:56:43 +01:00
version.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
vmcore.c fs/proc/vmcore.c:mmap_vmcore: skip non-ram pages reported by hypervisors 2014-08-08 15:57:23 -07:00